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Re: [libstdc++] PATCH: STL allocator cleanup, part 1


On Dec 17, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:

| I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was working on cleaning up the use
| of allocators in the STL part of libstdc++. This is a patch for the
| first part of that work, to give people a better idea of where I'm
| planning to go. This part is complete in itself, and I've tested it
| on Linux (I've verified that it doesn't break the libstdc++ or libjava
| build on Linux and that it doesn't introduce libstdc++ regressions),
| so first of all: OK to commit to mainline?


[...]

| type.)  This does mean that some users will have to fix their code,
| but that doesn't bother me very much.  Explicit use of allocators is
| not for the naive user.  Anyone sophisticated enough to want to use
| allocators at all is sophisticated enough to use them correctly.

Any steps to simply the codes there is OK with me.  I guess this is an
ABI that should be documented?

I'm probably missing something. What kind of documentation do you have in mind?

--Matt


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